Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Lyra (Lyr)  ·  Contains:  IC 1296  ·  M 57  ·  NGC 6720  ·  Ring Nebula
M57 - The Ring Nebula, Connor Matherne
M57 - The Ring Nebula
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M57 - The Ring Nebula

M57 - The Ring Nebula, Connor Matherne
M57 - The Ring Nebula
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M57 - The Ring Nebula

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This was a blast and a half to edit (just kidding, it was mostly an exercise in frustration!)

This was an old data set from over 3 years ago- one of the very first I ever received from the tech over at the LDT. At the time, it was even known as the DCT! 

This data though suffered from many issues that we ended up fixing later on as we were seeing what worked and what did not for these short test runs on the scope. With this in mind that data offers up some frustrating unique processing challenges. After banging my head against a wall for so long with this data, I finally feel happy with my result but simultaneously am always curious by the "what-ifs" of processing and wanted to see what others could come up with. Because of this I offered up the data as a processing challenge to the community. If you are interested in trying the data yourself or looking at other's edits, you can check out the thread on it here. 

Thanks for looking, and as always thanks to the operator Ana and the Lowell Observatory’s Discovery Channel Telescope for making these results possible.

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M57 - The Ring Nebula, Connor Matherne

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